Gerhard H. W. May wrote: > I have now done that. The machine hangs at the same position during > booting. The last few lines on the screen are (I have to type this > manually): > > ------------------------- > Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed > Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting > Mounted /proc filesystem > Mounting sysfs > Creating /dev > Starting udev > Loading jdb,ko module > Loading ext3.ko module > Creating root device > Mounting root filesystem > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > Switching to new root > SELinux: Disabled at runtime. > SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks > INIT: version 2.85 booting > Setting default font (latarcyrheb-sun16): [ok] > > Welcome to Fedora Core > Press 'I' to enter interactive startup. > > Starting udev: [ok] > Initializing hardware... storage network audio > ---------------------------- > > All this is very cryptic to me. Hi Gerhard. Sorry you're having problems. I'm guessing that you're having trouble with the audio driver. > I tried to follow Mustafa Orkun's > thread 'FC3 boot problem', but could not understand most of it. I also > found the bug 137571 on bugzilla > (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137571), which > seems to be very similar. The screenshot in that bug report is very > similar to my screen on startup. Similar, but it's hanging at a different place, which means that it's a different problem. > I tried 'ctrl+c', which got me a > little bit further, but then the machine hung again. The additional > messages read: > > ---------------------------- > Press 'I' to enter interactive startup. > [This is where I pressed ctrl-c] > INIT: Entering runlevel: 5 <snip> What happened here is that the Ctrl-C killed the start-up script /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit . The most important job that this had left to do was to remount the root filesystem as read-write. So Fedora tried booting with a read-only filesystem. This didn't work... There are two things for you to try, but to do this, you will need to be able to edit files through a text terminal. And you will need a text terminal that can edit things. One way is to boot using the rescue CD, which should let you get at the files. Another way would be to use something like Knoppix. A third way would be to press "e" in grub, change the "ro" to "rw" in the kenel line, and add "1" at the end. Then you might still need to Ctrl-C out where you did before, but you should have an rewritable filesystem. I would *seriously* not recommend this for regular use! I don't know which editors you are familiar with, so I'm probably going to tell you to do things you aren't comfortable with. Please ask where I go beyond your experience. In any case, you will want to mount your root filesystem and edit two files. Check where your root filesystem is mounted: use the /mount command. You will want to edit files on the normal Fedora filesystem, not the tree that the rescue CD provides. Edit etc/modprobe.conf. Make a note of the line beginning "alias snd-card", then delete them. (If there's more than one line, then delete that, too). If that doesn't work, edit /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. On line 171, change "# IDE" to "echo -n IDE:Gerhard". Then see if that ever gets displayed... If you use vi, "dd" deletes the current line. ":q!" quits without saving, ZZ saves and exits. "i" lets you insert text until you next press Escape (which you'll need to do to re-enable the other commands). Sorry this is so complex: we're diving right into the heart of the start-up here. James. -- E-mail address: james | You will stop at nothing to reach your objective, @westexe.demon.co.uk | but only because your brakes are defective.
